Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, Volume V, 1961. Library Dedication Issue.
Cincinnati: Library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1961. Hardbound. Royal octavo, red cloth with gold lettering, 156, 52 pp., b/w photos and drawings. Very Good. Item #89700
Souvenir gift toa Frend of the Jewish Book. With the compliments of The Klau Library of the Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion on the occasion of the founding of The Friends of the Jewsh Book. Of the 400 bound copies this is No. 262. Text is in English with a few articles at the rear in Hebrew. Articles are "The Klau Library Dedication," "Isaiah Sonne, 1887-1960," Victor E. Reichert, "The Early Editions of Spinoza's 'Tractatus Theologico-Politicus,' a Bibliohistorical Reexamination," Fritz Bamberger, "Jewish Bibliography in America," I. Edward Kiev, "A Note on the Orientalia Collection of the Hebrew Union College Library," Julius Levy, "Daniel al-Qumisi and the 'Pitron Shenem 'Asar,'" Lawrence Marwick, "A Catalogue of the Non-Hebrew Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Library of the Hebrew Union College," Moses Marx, "Festschriften of Jewish Educational Institutions, a Bibliography," Leha Y. Mushkin, "Greek Authors in Herod's Library," Ben Zion Wacholder, "An Early Compendium of Ashkenazic Jewish Music," Eric Werner, "Jewish Communal Activity in the United States, a Bibliography of Institutions Before the Civil War," Theodore Wiener, "Printed Rarities in the Hebrew Union College Library," Herbert Zafren. Hebrew language articles are, "Gilgule Me-Sagrut (La-Heker Ke-Shute ha-Dafus ve-Iture Ha-Sefer Ha-Ivri)," Isaac Rivkind, "Miftah Ha-Rambam, Reshimah Miktsue'it Alfa-Betit meha-Safrut al Ha-Rambam u-Mishnato," Jacob I. Dienstag, "Hosfato le"Kuntres Ha-Teshuvot' le-Boaz Cohen," Solomon B. Freehof, Ha-Igeret Ha-Shelishit La-Avner me-Burgos," Judah Rosenthal.
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